What is the name of the land bridge?
What 2 continents did the land bridge connect?
Now, what separates Asia and North America?
What animal was critical to the survival of the first people in North America?
What covered the earth during the Ice Age?
What type of climate did the Inuits live in?
What did the Inuits invent that we still use today?
Where did the Inuits settle?
Name 3 animals that the Inuit hunted the most.
Why did the Inuits mostly rely on hunting for their food supply?
Fill in the blank: The Taino Tribe were the _______ Native American Tribe that Christopher Columbus encountered.
What region did the Taino live in?
What is the name of the game that the Taino play, that is very much like our game of soccer?
A Taino leader was known as a:
What major crops did the Taino farm?
Where did the Anasazi live?
The Anasazi were known for having what: (2 things)
How did the Anasazi learn to store water?
Describe the Anasazi homes.
Describe 2 theories that researchers think are the reasons for why the Anasazi people disappeared.
From where did people migrate to North America and South America?
Approximately how long ago do most archeologists think the first people migrated to North America?
What contributed to the creation of communities?
What event contributed to people beginning to gather food?
Explain how we know that Columbus did NOT technically discover America.
Berengia
Asia and North America
The Bering Strait
The Mammouth
glaciers
Tundra (very cold)
Parkas (large coats)
Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Siberia
Whales, seals and caribou
They mostly relied on hunting for food because they weren't able to farm because of the cold climate.
first
Caribbean and parts of Florida
Batey
Cacique
Tucca, Sweet potatoes and tobacco and cotton
North America, Four Corners area, near the Grand Canyon (all exceptable answers)
Complex roads and irrigation systems
They learned from experiencing many droughts.
The Anasazi built their homes into the sides of cliffs and they were made out of adobe.
Any of the following: Long periods of drought, invadors forced them out, the population grew too large to feed, invasions by insects or other pests, increased presence of nomadic tribes in the area
Asia
20,000 years
The tribes ability to farm contributed to the creation of communities. It allowed them to be able to stay in one area instead of traveling around hunting for food like the early nomads did.
The mammouth becoming extinct
We know that he did not really discover America because when he arrived, he wasn't alone. He met people who had already been living there for thousands of years.
